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Jansson, Joakim - 2000

A dynamic process underlying firms' discrete financial choices has previously been found, but without controlling for unobserved heterogeneity, this dependence can either be of a true nature or an effect of firm-specific characteristics that we cannot observe. This study extends previous...

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Does school competition matter? : effects of a large-scale school choice reform on student performance

Ahlin, Åsa - 2003

The effect of a general school choice reform on student performance is studied in a Swedish institutional setting. A rich set of individual level data allows estimation of a value added specification, mitigating problems with omission of relevant variables. Increased school competition is shown...

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Does Swedish time-use data from 1984 and 1993 support the unitary model?

Hallberg, Daniel - 2004

Mainly because of data limitations, the unitary model (dating back to Becker, among others) has been the common-used theoretical framework in microanalysis of the household labor supply. Because of its simplicity, the household members are assumed to allocate time and consumption in consensus,...

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Earnings dynamics and inequality during macroeconomic turbulence : Sweden 1991-1999

Gustavsson, Magnus - 2002

Sweden 1991 to 1999. The analysis indicates a systematic increase in persistent earnings differentials during the 1990s …

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Do benefit cuts boost job findings? : Swedish evidence from the 1990s

Carling, Kenneth; Holmlund, Bertil; Vejsiu, Altin - 1999

In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 percent to 75 percent, a change that took effect on January 1, 1996. This paper examines how this change affected job finding rates among unemployed insured individuals. To identify the...

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Survey evidence on wage rigidity and unemployment : Sweden in the 1990s

Agell, Jonas; Lundborg, Per - 1999

contrary, we conclude that because of severe downward nominal wage rigidity real wages have become more rigid during Sweden s …

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Wealth dynamics in the 1980's and 1990's : Sweden and the U.S.

Klevmarken, Anders; Lupton, Joseph P.; Stafford, Frank - 2000

Given differences in public saving programs between Sweden and the United States, an examination of household private … Sweden and the United States over the past decade. We show that wealth inequality has been significantly greater in the U ….S. than in Sweden and, while remaining relatively constant since the mid-1980 s in Sweden, has increased in the United States …

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What determines real exchange rates? : the Nordic countries

Bergvall, Anders - 2002

variance in the real exchange rate for Finland and Sweden. …

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Direct displacement effects of labour market programmes : the case of Sweden

Dahlberg, Matz; Forslund, Anders - 1999 - This version: October, 1999

Using a panel of 260 Swedish municipalities over the period 1987-1996, this paper investigates the direct displacement effects of active labour market programmes (ALMPs). Compared to earlier studies on this topic, we have more and better data. From our GMM estimations, we find that (i) there are...

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Exchange rate regimes and macroeconomic stability : the case of Sweden 1972-1996

Bergvall, Anders - 2002

hypothetical macroeconomic developments under different regimes in Sweden during the period 1972 -1996. The main question is how … stable output would have been if Sweden had had a floating exchange rate regime. Would it have been better with a floating …

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